Sarabhai Crater (Photo source Wikipedia)
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New Delhi: As a mark of tribute to Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India’s Space Programme, on his birth centenary year, Chandrayana 2 Orbitor captured the Moon images of “Sarabhai Crater”, the Indian Space Research Organisation has said.
“Sarabhai” Crater is named after Dr Vikram Sarabhai and around 250 to 300 kilometres east of this Crater is where the Apollo 17 and Luna 21 Missions had landed.
“The birth centenary year of Dr Sarabhai completed on 12th of August and this is a thanksgiving tribute to him,” Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said here on Friday. he added that the recent achievements of ISRO, which have placed India as a frontline nation of the world is a vindication of Sarabhai’s visionary dream.
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India’s eventful Space journey which was valiantly initiated by Sarabhai and his team, despite several odds and constraints over six decades ago, and Dr. Singh said every Indian was filled with pride and confidence as inputs provided by India’s space missions were today being utilised even by those nations of the world who had started their space journey much longer before India.
As per the ISRO sources, the Sarabhai Crater captured in 3D images shows that the Crater has a depth of around 1.7 Kms taken from its raised rim and the slope of Crater walls is in between 25 to 35 degree. These findings will help the Space Scientists to understand further the process on the lunar region filled with lava.
It was further informed that Chandrayaan-2 continues to perform as per the design and providing valuable scientific data. The public release of scientific data from Chandrayaan-2 for global use will begin in October 2020.
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